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Resilience

Love Tree

Posted on 10 April 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

My Gift To You A poem about carers and the (often unrecognised) importance of their role in cancer survivorship. The poem is called My Gift to You-- because friends who care […]

Lotus

Posted on 10 April 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

  'To me, the cancer journey felt like being in the eye of a storm. Having very little control over what was happening, learning how to hold on, withstand, and […]

Acorn cups

Posted on 4 April 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

    The acorn cups resonate with me, from the outside they are hard and ugly but those golden cups are the very heart of the tree  - they hold […]

Scar and scarf

Posted on 28 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

4 photos to represent part of my journey through surgery for thyroid cancer.               Photo 1 - Before diagnosis I felt healthy and did […]

Cancer Diagnosis, Healing and Feeling Timeline

Posted on 22 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

Denial I was in denial the moment I felt the pea sized lump. I was too stressed at work to deal with it and it came and went with my […]

My Journey

Posted on 22 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

MY JOURNEY I sat in the consulting room With my red socks as company "It's almost certain you have CANCER" Is what the doctor said to me. There are tigers; […]

Snakes and ladders

Posted on 20 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

                                  Looking back 8 years on April 29th 2009 my life had a blowout. I […]

Wounded Tree

Posted on 20 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

  The natural world became an important part of the healing process for me – being close to nature became a way of releasing some of the emotional turmoil and […]

Coming Home

Posted on 20 March 2018 by Rebekah Potton

Elaine, breast cancer survivor  

A little Bit Broken (but still a beautiful thing)

Posted on 17 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

                                                  This was inspired by a […]